Now that you mention in it, I do not recallll any mention of burial. If no cemetary was mentioned, then cremation would be quite reasonable. HOWEVER, neither noble families maintaining crypts nor skaa burial plots along the field borders would be reasonable.

It seems like skaa are killed on a whim in many places, or just die from the various problems of poverty (malnutrition, disease, lack of shelter, etc). This would make it a necessity for any city to have a method of disposing of corpses. I can definitely see burial (especially mass graves) for skaa, though there wouldn't be any gravestones or other markers.

A kandra disguised as a mortician or a gravedigger would be able to acquire bones and hair rather easily. It makes a perfect long-term cover identity while he works to fulfill his current Contract.

Honestly I assumed they did the same with the dead ska that they do with all the ash that falls from the sky: throw it in the river. Nobles probably treat their own dead much better, probably family mausoleums or the like.

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Honestly I assumed they did the same with the dead ska that they do with all the ash that falls from the sky: throw it in the river. Nobles probably treat their own dead much better, probably family mausoleums or the like.

I can see this, though just throwing dead bodies in the river could cause serious health problems even for the Nobles. Plus, the society seems to be a little more sophisticated than that in other areas.

So, with Skaa, they already have a system for dealing with copious amounts of ash so I figure they would be cremated and added to the existing ash removal process. The most generous of masters may even give the immediate family a day off to mourn the dead.

I can definitely see Nobles running the gamut of burial methods. Lesser nobles may be buried with headstones while the more affluent have mausoleums.

I can definitely see Nobles running the gamut of burial methods. Lesser nobles may be buried with headstones while the more affluent have mausoleums.

See, I would expect that nobles, if anyone, would insist on cremation since nobles (at least enough of the decision-making ones) know about kandra. Skaa might have any manner of regionally varying traditions simply because they, in their general ignorance, don't have a specific reason to destroy bones.

I don't remember that in the novels say anithing about it. But thinking in what the people believe is Scadrial about the mist and the legends about the mistwraiths I think they will burn the bodies. If everybody fears the mist you don't want your lived ones buried in the ground.

I was looking through the novels and Dockson mentions a nobleman killing a female skaa after the nobleman was done with her, then returning her for burial. So, the skaa appear to bury at least some of their dead.